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by panglott 12y ago
He's confusing the simple past verb form and the participle. In the English weak verbs, they look identical, but they are used in different tense/aspect/voice structures. Simple Past: He developed. He drank water. Participle
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by panglott 12y ago
Not only is he certain that his son will be a programmer, he is also certain that the labor market for programmers will be exactly the same in 15-20 years as it is right now.
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by panglott 12y ago
Perhaps, but the further back you go, the starker the shift in reading habits becomes. I skimmed this article in 5 minutes and probably won't remember it tomorrow. Compare two centuries ago, when the only books most people had were the
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by panglott 12y ago
Prediction: There will be software in 100 years.
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by panglott 12y ago
I get your point, but even still. The Niger-Congo family is probably relatively analogous to the Indo-European family (both in internal diversity, geographic spread, and association with the spread of pastoralism/agriculture), but even
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by panglott 12y ago
The appropriate question shouldn't be "Why does Africa have so many languages?" but rather "Why do developed nation-states have so few?" High levels of synchronic linguistic diversity should be considered the pre-mo
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by panglott 12y ago
Maybe something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_shadow#Long_distance_...
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by panglott 12y ago
Talk about borderline racist!
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by panglott 12y ago
Because if you're going to learn a programming language to automate the boring stuff, Python will be easier and take you farther.
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by panglott 12y ago
Yes, post the video!
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by panglott 12y ago
Interesting, there seems to be some truth to this. I've known that immigration was a major cause of US population growth. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/03/15-immigran... The premise
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by panglott 12y ago
If a stupid law disproportionately harms black people, that's racist.
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by panglott 12y ago
Looks like gentrification is pricing out the historic black community of San Francisco, &c., because the NIMBYs don't want to build enough housing for the people moving there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9
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by panglott 12y ago
Is this an inherent feature of polygamy, or simply a consequence of the fact that polygamy occurs mostly in less-developed non-Western societies? Polygamy is pretty common cross-culturally in agricultural societies, if not commonly the domi
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by panglott 12y ago
It's obviously racist, it's just implicitly racist rather than explicitly so ;)
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by panglott 12y ago
Louisville, Kentucky, had segregation but not Jim Crow. The black population was a minor but important voting bloc, that could unite to oust mayors who really crossed a line with the racist bullshit. But make no mistake about how people wer
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by panglott 12y ago
The dictatorships may be based on nominally secular values that Western countries prefer, but they also have choked out the civil society that is the foundation of liberal democracy.
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by panglott 12y ago
"Nuclear" should mean that newly married couples form a new household rather than integrating into the household of the extended family. Why the nuclear rather than the extended family would be considered important for social stab
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by panglott 12y ago
Yes, but why Europe produced so many angry young crusaders is also an interesting question that touches on gender and family issues. IIRC the Norman practice of dividing an estate among all surviving sons led, after a few generations, to la
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by panglott 12y ago
The OKCupid analyis is based on US dating data...right? Why would anyone try to analogize that to universal human behavior, rather than taking it as a description of the situation in the US? "Race" is a culture-specific category.
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by panglott 12y ago
Race is simply a salient category in American life, that shapes people's social experiences in a wide variety of ways. It's also pretty ordinary for people to prefer mates that have a broadly similar life experience and perspectiv
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by panglott 12y ago
At the same time, it seems like marriage is much more costly and difficult for men to achieve in much of the Middle East/South Asia. So you still have a larger population of unmarried men without many marriage prospects.
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by panglott 12y ago
Does House of Cards licensing have anything to do with the fact that it was originally a UK show?
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by panglott 12y ago
I don't understand why people forget they have the DVD business. That's why I subscribed, and I've always been a subscriber. Everything comes out on DVD eventually, so you can watch almost anything through Netflix if you&#x27
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by panglott 12y ago
Gentrification gets a bad name because when landlords realize that yuppies are willing to pay very high rents (double, triple, quadruple, quintuple) to rent apartments in old buildings, they jack up the rents of people who have been living
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by panglott 12y ago
I'm more pointing out that there is a history of political violence that undermined the country's economic conditions. Famine doesn't come only from a drought or a land use change, but most disastrously occurs with more basic
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by panglott 12y ago
Anyways, the basic agreement is you're reading content, produced at cost by the publisher, for free by agreeing to view ads along with the article. The problem with your argument is that readers did not actually make an agreement to se
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by panglott 12y ago
If the publisher offered the movie up on a Web site for free download, it would absolutely be ethical to download it without paying for it.
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by panglott 12y ago
If you don't want content to be free, perhaps you should not make it free? Lots of media IS free (say, Wikipedia) and there's lots of free stuff to read out there on the Web. Similarly there is a lot of paid content going over HTT
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by panglott 12y ago
I appreciate the concession that there is no explicit deal that readers will look at ads to pay for media. But there isn't actually such an implicit deal, either. There is an explicit deal between publishers and advertisers, in which m

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